Nicholas Bell

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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United States of Love | 2016 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Certain Women: Wasilewski Explores Enlightenment and Despair It was 1990, and the climate was changing. Or so begins Polish director Tomas Wasilewski’s third feature, United...

Malgré la nuit | 2016 Film Comment Selects Review

When the Night Has Come: Grandrieux Laments Lost Love Seven years have passed since provocateur Philippe Grandrieux’s 2008 film Un Lac, and he remains somewhat...

Triple 9 | Review

The Russians Are Coming: Hillcoat Juggles Strands in Sprawling Heist Thriller About half way into John Hillcoat’s impressively staged heist thriller Triple 9, it becomes...

Tricked | Review

Community Cinema: Verhoeven’s Failed Experiment Confirms Concepts of Authorship Four years after its premiere in his native Netherlands and a screening at the 2012 Rome...

Criterion Collection: I Knew Her Well | Blu-ray Review

Love is most definitely not a many splendored thing in the bedazzled artifice of Rome’s swinging 60s, at least as far as the good...

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Lee Chang-dong – Possible Love

For his seventh feature film, Korean master filmmaker Lee...

Interview: Travis Knight – Wildwood

Among those that play the long game we could...

Interview: Peyton Elizabeth Lee – Wildwood

A half dozen years ago Peyton Elizabeth Lee moved...

Interview: Jacob Tremblay, Brad Schiff, Rachelle Lambden & Tom Carey – Wildwood

Among the press and public activities at this year's...
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